[ JaEtiary 12, 1888. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
PLANTS CERTIFICATED—COtt- 
fl'ntud— 
Mrs. D. Saunders, Bridesmaid, 
495 Primula sinensis Brides¬ 
maid,518; Emperor, 448. Pteris 
claphamensis, 518.-Rhodo¬ 
dendron Thetis, 236. Rose 
Paul’s single White Perpetual, 
121.-Saccolab um Heathi, 
120 . Streplocarpus Kewensis, 
Watsoni, 76.-Viola Lucy 
Ashton, 120 
Pleurothallis lamphropliylla, 
541 
Plumbago capensis alba, 4 >3 
Plums—Green Gage, 21 ; useful 
varieties of, 249 ; Mirabel le 
Petite, 284, 292, 350 ; under 
glass, 288 ; house for, 479 ; 
origin of Greengage, 505 ; 
pruning, 524; tree gumming, 
552 
Polemonium flavum, 494 
Polygonum Brunonis, 252 
Polystichum proliferum,148 
Pomegranate, double-flowered, 
162 
Pope’s Villa, 118 
Poplar leaves, insects on, 305 
Poppies, 10 
Portmadoc Show, 162 
Potatoes—Lemon Kidney, 42; 
in Yorkshire, 163 ; trials, 201; 
digging, 215; King ot the 
Russets, 320 ; late, 345 ; super¬ 
tubering, 509; at Wakefield, 
516 ; statistics, 539 
Poulett Lodge, Twickenham, 
118 
Power, Mr. F., 516 
Primulas—Reidi, 52, 321 ; ob- 
conica, seeding and growing, 
184; sinensis out of doors, 
272 ; Sapphirina, 321; erosa, 
425; sinensis Bridesmaid,518 ; 
the history and progress of 
P. sinensis, 668 
Primula Conference, report of 
the, 203 
Privet, goffien-edged, 4C3 
Prizes, winning and losing, 
419 6 
Propagating, late, 216 
Pterises, ill ; serrulata, 126; 
claphamensis, 518 
Pyretlirums, 109 
Quality, quantity, depres- 
sion, 487 
RABY CASTLE, 166 
Railway rates and producers, 91 
Ramsbottom Floral Society, 
116 
Rain in London, 138 
Ranunculuses, culture of, 482 
Raspberries—and dry weather, 
28; Lord Beaconsfield, 116 ; in 
autu inn, 336 
Reading, notes at, 255 ; show 
at, 188 
Rea spider and mildew, remedy 
against, 91 ; destroying, 174 
Review of book—Veitcn’s Or¬ 
chidaceous Plants, part 2, 472 
Rhododendrons, greenhouse,564 
Richmond Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting of, 540 
Rock work, making, 5.6 
Rogieras, 269 
Roots for winter, 391 
Roots, excrescences on, 505 
Rosemary, 574 
Rose garden, Dr. Budd’s, 277 
Roses—in summer, 5; growing 
for beginners, 7; watering, 
29 ; 42 ; enfeebled, 42 ; sports, 
insects, 56; at Edinburgh, 
Scottish growers, 67 ; Earl of 
Dufferin and sir ltowiand 
Hill, 68; not opening, 81; 
sporting, 80 ; Marechal JSiet, 
house for, 1'>4 ; in pots, culture 
of, 114; Marechal Niel, 129; 
best for forcing, 151; Duchess 
of Albany, 22/ ; mildew on, 
228; at the National K*se So¬ 
ciety’s Metropolitan Show, 
18s7, 245; Roses Gloire de 
Dijon, Tea-scented, 272 ; 
Gloire de Dijon, 293 ; season 
of 1887,331 ; heps, 35o ; mildew 
on, 337,376; in pots, 350; plant¬ 
ing, 360; o*i a wall,394; Rose 
Marechal Niel, 438; at Alder- 
minster Lodge, 421; Review, 
441; pruning when planted, 
528 ; garden, selections o;,549; 
*• Roses for Amateurs,” 494; for 
tree i and arches, 505; for ex- 
hibition, 505 
Rose Shows—National Rose 
Society’s Metropolitan Show, 
12; Canterbury, 14; East 
Gloucestershire, Eltham, 15; 
Twickenham, 16 ; Crystal Pa¬ 
lace, 34; Bath, 35j Ports¬ 
mouth, Reigate, 36 ; Farning- 
liain, Maidstone, Sutton, 37; 
Edinburgh (the National), 
47 ; Oxford, 49 ; Hitchin, 50 ; 
Birmingham, 50; Hereford, 
51; Brockham, 51; Alexan¬ 
dra Palace, 53; Carlton, 72; 
Christleton and Wirral, 73; 
Leek and New Brighton, 
74; in Dublin, proposed, 515 
Rose Society (Naiional)Annual 
Meeting of, 520 
Rothschild, Baron Natliaaiei 
and his gardener, 227 
Rubus rosaifolius, 560 
Rux ey Lodge Gardens, 143 
SACCHAROMETER, 373 
St. Neots (Hunts) Show, 98 
Salisbury show, 188 
Salting walks, 81 
Samphire, 305 
Saxifraga opposit.ifolia, 262 
Schubertia grandiflora, 236,49 7 
Scottish Arboricultural Soc ety 
excursion to Balmoral, 116 
Scutellaria Mocciuiana, 293 
Seakaie, 435 
Season and crops in East 
Lothian, 184 
Seedlings, raising, 528 
Seeds from Sikkim, 204 
Seed stands at Islington, 5 7 
Seed trade, English, and Sun¬ 
day labour, 8 
Shading and air giving, 46,29 
Sheffield and West Riding 
Chrysanthemum Society, 115, 
539 
Showing and judging, 221,252 
Shrewsbury chow, 167 
Slugs in the Orcid house, 479 
smoke injuring p ants,damages 
for, 139 
Snow in London, 320; on plants, 
574 
Sobralia macrantha, culture of, 
179 
Soil—improving, 81, 333 ; Mr. 
Gilmour’a lecture ou, 445, 414 
Solauums, 26J; corniculatum, 
429 
Sophrocattleya Batemanniana, 
472 
Southampton Show, 98 
Southampton, 258 
South shields Parks, 274 
Spinach for dry weatuer,333 
Stable manure, 294, 421 
Statice Suworovvi, 337 
Stephanotis doribunda, 216,549 
Streptocarpus Watsoni and 
kewensis, 76 
Styrax japonica, 29 
Strawberries—Pauline, 8 ; Lox- 
ford Halt Seedling, 27; Fete 
at Chiswick, 31 ; at Bath, 31; 
in pots, 38, 215, 281, 326, 414, 
479,525; early, 61; Laxton’s 
Noble, 71; oid versus young 
plants, 77 ; flavour of, 76; for 
IorciUg, 86, 133, 269, 489, 559; 
main crop and late, 99; selec¬ 
tion of, loo; beds, old, 100 ; in 
1887,108; runners (last year’s) 
133 ; rusted,” 151; planting, 
155,182; effects of drought ou, 
varieties, 157 ; alpines, 174 ; 
preparing for forcing, crowns 
splitting, 269 ; plantations, 
mulching 4.1, 
Streptocarpus hybrids, 89 
Sudbrooke Holme, Orchids at 
382 
Sutton Show, 147 
Sunderland Parks, 274 
S wanmore Park, 258 
TAB LE D £ C 0 BAT IONS AT RlC H- 
mond, 8 
Taunton Show, 145 
Tea plant, the, 561 
Tenuis lawn, size of, 430 
Tennis grounds, making, 488 
Tenth redo adumbrata, 104 
Thames Dittou House, 169 
Thomson’s Vine mauure, 574 
Thoughts on current topics, 6, 
isl; random, 512 
Thrips, destroying, 219 
Tobacco culture—in Kent, 236 ; 
conference ou, 497 
Tomatoes, 42; growing 128; 
without vent lation, 103: 
notes on, 135; the “Tree, 
138 ; at Chiswick, 161; Earliest 
of All, 163 fine crops out of 
doors, 184; Carters’ Perfection 
out of doors, 256; out of doors, 
251; Chiswick trials of, 276 ; 
certificated, 278 ; Ham Green 
Favourite. 336 ; ripening late, 
345 ; from cuttings, 345 ; di¬ 
seased, 350 ; fungus, 429 ; for 
the market, 441; Cardinal,527; 
notes ou, 560 ; tue Peach and 
Puritan, 561 
Tomato house, heating a, 219 
Transplanting vegetables, 215 
Trees in London, 181; lor the 
seaside, 284 ; on wails, regu¬ 
lating, 325 
Trees and shrubs, late planting, 
266 ; ornamental, 313 
Tree Ferns, sale at Chiswick,4 go* 
Trenching, effects oi, 182 
TropoeolumMrs. Ellice, 116 
Trowbridge show, 166 
Tryptera artemisiai, 528 
Tulips for forcing, 238 
Tulip Tree, 424 
Tweed Vineyards, Clovenfords, 
323 
Twickenham Gardens, 118 
Twickenham show, 16 
UNDER GARDENERS AND 
PRIZES 495 
VAN IIOUTTE .MEMORIAL 
prizes, 53 
Vallota purpurea, culture of, 
482 
Vegetables removing waste, 
177 ; coarse, 354 ; competition 
at South Kensington, 367 
Veitch Memorial medals, 567 
Vicia Denesiaua, 494 
Vines—borders an 1 unorthodox 
pruniug, 4,52,87,133 ; summer 
treatmeut of. 27 ; seasonable 
notes oii,78; borders, wet, 12>; 
the “Mauresa,” 139; lilting, 
150,193, 215,328; insects of, 143 ; 
borders and Vine-pruning, 
183; manure, Thomson’s, 203 ; 
leaves withering,218; methods 
of pruning, 23u; in autumn, 
259 ; shoots, more room for, 
290 * border, compost for, 305; 
early forced, 302; methods of 
pruning, 317 ; and insects, 322; 
flowers, erect and defiexed 
stamens, 343; forcing, 345 ; 
renovating, unsatisfactory, 
373; in pots, 386 ; a large, 
426 ; borders, dressing for, 460; 
reuovating, 46L; forcing, 478 ; 
plantiug, 482; pruning, 482 ; 
and mealy bug, 492 ; at 
vii. 
VINES —conti n ued— 
Garston, 527 ; borders, 517 ; 
pruning, early v. late, 519; 
forcing, 571, 525; for late 
vinery, 552; fruiting in a 
year, 558 
Vine of Kinnell, the great, 4(59 
Vineries, ventilating, 24L 
Vinery, an amateur’s, 259 
Violas—bedding, lists or varie¬ 
ties, 199 ; 245, 270, 323, 422; 
notes on, 295, 837, 402, 443 ; 
the classification of, 377 
Violets—cultivation,292, 320; in 
winter, 4 9 
WADDON HOUSE, 490 
Wakefield Paxton Society, 8, 
116, 250, 272; meeting of, 204, 
516 
Walkley Amateur Floral and 
Horticultural Society, 250 
Walnuts, keeping, 293 
Walnut trees coming into bear¬ 
ing, 306 
Walks for a kitchen garden, 
S95, 422 
Wallflowers, 574 
Wail trees, winter dressing for 
571 
Walls, fruit trees for, 612 
Wasps—varieties of, 133 ; and 
fru t, destroying, 182, 204 
Water, scarcity of, tanks, 131; 
and watering, 182; soft for 
gardens, 448 
Watercress beds, 80 
Watering plants in hot weather 
104 
Weather—in Notts, 139 ; notes 
on the, 336 i the, in December, 
539; chart, a, 539; at Christ¬ 
mas, 560 
Weeds, 259 
Weeping tree, a real, 337 
Welsh Shows, 169 
Wentworth Castle, 164 
Weston-super Mare Show, 145 
Wimbledon Show, 3 
Wimbledon Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, 540 
Wine, making from unripe 
Grapes, 373 
Winuing and losing prize3, 
419 
Winter—Greens, 53; Aconitei 
272 ; in Scotland, 320,515 
Woad,328 
Wood wardia*, 110 
Worms in soil, p>8; in pots, ex¬ 
pelling, 482 
Wyiam, 315 
Year, notes on the clos- 
ing, 55» 
Ye vs, Golden for hedge3,180 
York Chrysanthemum Show, 
264 
York florists, annual dinner of 
the, 540 
Y ucca aloifolia variegata, 2)4 
